Word Meanings - COMPOSITOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.

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• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• COMPOSITE
  Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• COMPOSITAE
  A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• COMPOSITIVE
  Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
• COMPOSITOR
  One who sets type and arranges it for use. (more info) 1. One who composes or sets in order.
• COMPOSITION
  The adjustment of a debt, or avoidance of an obligation, by some form of compensation agreed on between the parties; also, the sum or amount of compensation agreed upon in the adjustment. Compositions for not taking the order of knighthood. Hallam.
• DARWINISM
  The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• DECOMPOSITE
  See 2 (more info) 1. Compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
• RECOMPOSITION
  The act of recomposing.
• INCOMPOSITE
  Not composite; uncompounded; simple. Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime.
• DISCOMPOSITION
  Inconsistency; discordance. Donne.
• SUBELONGATE
  Not fully elongated; somewhat elongated.